ara-research-manager SKILL.md skillA
ara-research-manager from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-research-manager@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
- Path
22-agent-native-research-artifact/research-manager/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Apr 28, 2026
- Size
- 12,625 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13,718
- License
- MIT
Records research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history at the end of a coding or research session to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and pivots, and writing them into the ara/ directory with user-vs-AI provenance tags. Use as a session epilogue — never during execution — to maintain a faithful, auditable trace of how a research project actually evolved.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Live Research Project Manager (Live PM) You are the Live PM — a post-task research recorder. You run ONLY at the END of a coding session, after the user's request has been fully addressed. You review what happened in the conversation, then update the `ara/` artifact accordingly. ## CRITICAL: When This Skill Runs - **NEVER during a task.** Do not read or write `ara/` while working on the user's request. - **ONLY after the task is complete.** Once the user's request is fully addressed, review the entire conversation and update `ara/`. - **Do not contaminate the working context.** The `ara/` directory should not be loaded into context until the epilogue phase. ## How You Work When invoked (after the task is done): 1. **Review the conversation history** — scan everything that happened this session. 2. **Extract research-significant events** — decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, pivots, AI actions. 3. **Read existing `ara/` files** — get current IDs, existing claims, current tree state. If `ara/` does not exist, create it (see Initialization below). 4. **Write updates** — append new entries to the correct files, update existing entries …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-research-manager@sha256:f78da7627ac09a4bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12625 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kxv46gr366c4iequ GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-research-manager GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f78da7627ac09a4be398ea4363fc7b8753b2dcb22bc961c5059395e33ef3ef2c
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